Bowman
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November 28, 2011St. Thomas to Rio (1987)The passage from the Caribbean to Brazil was perhaps the most arduous of all for the crew aboard Cloud Nine.
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November 28, 2011Antarctica, Again (1992)The crew of Cloud Nine makes it through a difficult passage across the Antarctic Circle.
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November 28, 2011Northwest Passage (2007)Cloud Nine becomes the first American sailing vessel in history to transit the Northwest Passage from east to west.
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November 28, 2011North Atlantic Knockdown (1986)The crew of Cloud Nine experiences a knockdown en route to Emsworth, England.
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November 28, 2011A Dockside Dismasting (1988)A freighter causes trouble for Cloud Nine in Rarotonga.
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November 28, 2011A Passage to Antarctica (1988)Cloud Nine's crew of six spent three weeks south of Cape Horn in 1988-- one of only three sailboats to visit Antarctica that year.
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November 28, 2011Cloud Nine's Odyssey Revisited 1After three decades of round-the-world voyaging, former shipmates of a globe-girdling Bowman 57 gather at a Minnesota reunion.
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November 28, 2011Typhoon Forrest (1983)The crew aboard Cloud Nine avoids the path of Typhoon Forrest.
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May 4, 2007Bowman 57: Quite the KetchSlender, elegant, and spirited, the Bowman 57 is a standard with refined styling.
Electronic Updates
Above is Raymarine's new RayControl app running on my iPad1 and the screen is purposely busy because I was trying to stress it. While a NMEA 2000 data simulator tells the test e7 MFD it's going 40 knots up the Bay with one chart window Head Up in 3D and the other North Up, I could still sit in my office -- 40 feet and a "deck" away -- and select/display a tide station with my finger without a noticeable lag. I did manage to crash the app's WiFi connection to the e7 once, but Ray actually ...
